July 2012

photo by Bryan Huskey The last week of July promises to be a great week of fishing, but to assure success, anglers should be prepared for change. In our local freestones, the flows continue to drop to more wadable levels opening up more water to explore and spread the fishing pressure. Keep in mind that as the levels change, the…

The Silver Creek Browns have been delivering continuously over the past few weeks, with both size and numbers. From the deeper troughs to the undercut banks to sipping dries in the shallow flats, the fishing could not be better. The sudden heat wave has put the bugs in an inconsistent mode, but find the right place at the right time…

7th Annual Fly Fishing Film Festival & Product Fair As we enter the second half of July, the myriad of fishing opportunities continue to expand. The hardest thing about fishing right now is choosing where to go. Do you want to fish high mountain streams with big attractor patterns in pursuit of cutthroat trout? Or would you rather cast long…

As the summer days begin to heat up, our local waters will begin to transition. Hatches like the Green Drake will begin to taper off on the local freestones and the Trico hatch will slowly begin to build to its peak in late July and early August on Silver Creek. The Big Wood, the Big Lost below Mackay Reservoir, and…

It’s been a little over a year since Dr. Robert Franklin “The Doc” and SCO fishing guide turned friend and companion Pete Wood shared their brown drake experience with us on film. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28285715[/vimeo] Life has taken the two of them many places since then. Doc has been to the Mississippi Delta after red fish, dove hunting in Argentina, Dartmouth for…

Unlike the last years above average run off, this July the water is dropping fast giving anglers a lot of options for fishing on the Big Wood and its tributaries as well as the Copper Basin. The water is still high in places but look for more and more water to open up in the coming weeks. July is a…

Things are starting to heat up, including the temperatures down on the Creek. Just one persons opinion on the fishing the past week. Early Morning Fishing – Whatever that fluttering white moth looking thing is, there is a billion of them. Prairie Caddis/Land Moth/White Sedge, there are a ton on the lower stretches, and get a stiff wind and…